Join Us for a Live Google + Tenkara Hangout!

I’d like to do a preliminary one just to see how it goes, and then maybe make it a regularly scheduled event where tenkara anglers across the US (or globe) can get together and have regular live video chats and share ideas. It could be a fun way to leverage new social media and better connect with each other about our shared passion. Personally, I’d love to put a face and voice to some of the names out there in the tenkara community!

For this first one, I don’t really have an agenda but if it takes off, I might schedule future hangouts with specific topics like “level vs. furled lines”, “sakasa kebari tying tips”, etc. Don’t know where this is going to go yet but we’ll see. For now, just consider it an “anything goes” tenkara conversation as if we were all sitting in a bar together casually talking shop.

When is it?

Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 7:00 PM MST

What you need to participate

You’ll need to have a Google + account and meet these basic requirements. You also need to add the TenkaraTalk Google + page to your circles. Once you add Tenkara Talk to your circles, I will add you to mine and that will create the invite list.

How do you join the hangout?

Be logged in to Google + at the specified time. I will invite everyone in my tenkara circle to the hangout. You should see the invite in your stream but you could be notified other ways as well depending on what you’re logged into.

The downside?

Right now Google + only allows ten people to be on the video chat at a time. Including yours truly, that means only nine other people will be able to join. So, unfortunately, it’s first come, first served. But if you don’t get in on this one, don’t worry. There will be more coming soon.

I hope you can make it to the first ever Google + tenkara hangout and I’m excited to video chat with you about tenkara!

Will you be able to make it?

About the author

Jason Klass

Jason is an avid fly angler and backpacker. As a former fly fishing guide originally from Western New York, he moved to Colorado and became an early adopter of tenkara which perfectly suited the small, high altitude streams and lakes there. He has not fished a Western-style fly rod for trout since.

How was the talk?
Sorry I couldn’t be there, went to a “dam removal” charity event tonight. Our donated rod saw a lot of attention.

December 2, 2011 at 11:12 pm

Jason Klass

It was fun, but I think I need to: A. learn and be better able to translate the technology to people (several people tried to get in but either didn’t read my directions or I gave them bad ones so they couldn’t participate) and B. choose a topic. The discussion was good but I think it would have been better if we had a topic to start us off. Oh well. It was a good learning experience and I think I will be better prepared for next time. Thanks to all of you who participated! And, Daniel, we’d love to have you on the panel!

Jason Klass is a former fly fishing guide & casting instructor based in Colorado. He was an early adopter of tenkara in the West and has been fishing the method for a variety of species since 2009. Read more >>